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One of the major changes notified in the Amendments Rules 2015 is that now every NGO has to upload FCRA Financials to their websites within 9 months of year end. So the time limit is 31st December to upload FCRA financials to your NGO Website. In the same clause another amendment is to upload quarterly FCRA receipts within 15 days of the quarter end. Let us discuss this in detail.
A. Upload FCRA Financials (Annually)
Q1 : What should be upload?
A1 : Receipts and Payments Account (FC Funds), Income and Expenditure Accounts (FC Funds), Balance Sheet (FC Funds) and all the annexures.
Q2 : Is it Audited Statements?
A2 : Yes, all statements must be audited by chartered accountant.
Q3 : What is recommended format?
A3 : No format is recommended by FCRA department. It is preferable to have in PDF format.
Q4 : Where it should be upload?
A4 : NGO’s official website.
Q5 : What is the deadline?
A5 : After 9 months of Financial Year ends. i.e. 31st December.
Q6 : From which year it should be upload?
A6 : Upload Financial Statements of 2014-15 immediately.
B. Upload Details of FC receipts (Quarterly)
Q1 : What should be upload?
A1 : Details of Donors, Amount Received and Date of Receipt.
Q2 : Is it Audited ?
A2 : No, only details to be uploaded.
Q3 : What is recommended format?
A3 : No format is recommended by FCRA department. It is preferable to have in PDF format.
Q4 : Where it should be upload?
A4 : As per the rule 13(b) of amendments 2015, It should be upload to NGO’s official website or website specified by the Central Government. (However no such website is specified by the Government yet, so preferable is to upload to NGO’s website right now)
Q5 : What is the deadline?
A5 : 15 Days after the end of the quarter.
- Quarter
- April to June
- July to September
- October to December
- January to March
- Deadline
- 15th July
- 15th October
- 15th January
- 15th April
Q6 : From which Quarter it should be upload?
A6 : As per my opinion, NGO has to upload for three quarters of FY 2015-16 ending on 30 Jun, 30 Sept and 31 Dec immediately.
C.What if NGO do not have website
If the NGOs do not have website, then it should get one. As the cost of creating and maintaining website is bit higher, I recommended to use below free tools / website :
Also watch my video on how to create free website of NGO on wordpress.com.
Kindly put your queries /questions / suggestions in the below comment box.
FCRA department has extended due date of Filling FC4 form – Annual Return from 31st December 2015 to 15th March 2016 for the financial year 2014-15.
As recently, FCRA Amendments Rules 2015 has been notified, all forms are changed and online filling is now mandatory. In the light of this changes, FCRA department has extended the FCRA annual return form FC4 filling date vide circular dated 22/12/2015,
- OLD DATE
- 31.12.2015
- NEW DATE
- 15.03.2016
Making all FCRA services online
FCRA department is in the process of making all the procedures online. (read this blog), previously asked NGOs to have digital signatures of Chief Functionary. Yesterday, FCRA department has issued notification dated July 28, 2015 (download it from here) stating that in order to making all FCRA services online, instructed NGOs to go on FCRA portal and update their details.
Which Procedures becoming online?
- Application for FCRA registration
- Application for Prior Permission
- Application for renewal of FCRA
- Change Application for Name of Association
- Change Application for Address of Association
- Change Application for Bank Account of Association
- Filling Annual Return
Attachments to any applications
All the documents and attachments for the above procedures will also to be uploaded in scan copies. No hard copies of such documents accepted by FCRA department.
Payment of Fees
After everything will be online, payment of fees for above procedures will also be accepted only through online payments.
When ?
As mentioned in the above notification, after 15 to 20 days all the procedure will be online.
Immediate action to be taken by NGO – Very Important
FCRA department instructed NGOs to update their information –
1) Go to this link – http://fcraonline.nic.in/dat_col_frame.aspx
2) Enter your FCRA Registration No. , State and District (see below image)
3) Update all the information and save data (see image below)
After a circular regarding DSC of chief functionary, FCRA Department has issued a circular on 17th June 2015, (Download from here)asking for suggestion on amendments to Foreign Contribution Regulation Rules, 2011 by Foreign Contribution Regulation Rules (2015).
THIS IS A DRAFT AMENDMENTS and suggestions or comments asked from public and other stakeholders on or before 1st July, 2015.
We are in the process of analyzing and studying all the changes in the amendments and it impacts. Meanwhile let us see important changes which are suggested in the amendments of FC Rules :
Website will become mandatory
After this amendments, every NGOs with FC registration will have to build a website. No, it is not declared directly as mandatory. But changes made to Rule 13(1) stating that every registered organization has to publish audited Income Expenditure, Receipt Payments and Balance Sheet of Foreign contribution to its website before 31st December of every year. Such website has to be declared as official website and is to be informed to FCRA department.
Have to publish Foreign Receipt within 7 days
Yes, you have to publish to your official website, every foreign receipts within seven days of receipts. Refer rule 13(B) of such draft amendments.
Bank will have to report in 48 hours
Bank will have to report of FCRA department within 48 hours of any transactions in respect of receipt and utilization of any foreign contribution. Refer rule 16 (2) of such draft amendments.
Online Procedures
We have already write a blog stating how FCRA department is eager to implement all the online procedure. Here in this amendments it is clearly mention that now onwards all the forms will be filled online through DSC and also you can make payment through online payment gateway.
Change in Forms
All the form numbers will be changed e.g. Annual Return Form FC-6 now become FC-4. Not only form numbers, but details and information given in the forms will also changed. We will soon post a blog showing what changes will be made in Forms.
You can give Suggestions
FCRA department has asked for suggestions on the above mentioned amendments from public. You can give your suggestions by email to Mr. A.K. Dhyani, Under Secretary to the Government of India on ak.dhyani@nic.in.
Alternatively you can give your suggestion in the comment box below. We will compile all the suggestions and email to the authority.
Note – This amendments are draft and not final. This will be implemented only after FCRA Rule, 2015 published in the Official Gazzette.
